The U-boot Hunt

I have tried to flash the bbox2 with the complete flash dump of the Agif italian router (which is based on the same hardware), it boots with the uboot prompt, but unfortunately, there is no way to have input in there, it goes in a loop which I cannot break with keys entered on the serial port:

U-Boot 1.1.4 for FUSIV chipset by Ikanos(Jun 16 2009 - 15:49:51)                                                                                                                                                                                                               
CPU: IKANOS Fusiv 160 Family                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Ethernet Switch hardware reset                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
DRAM:  64 MB
Flash: 16 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   voxEmac
Type "h" for HELP. Have fun!
factory reset countdown: 15 
******** 4 8 15 16 23 42 *********
... done
Erased 3 sectors
U-Boot 1.1.4 for FUSIV chipset by Ikanos(Jun 16 2009 - 15:49:51)
CPU: IKANOS Fusiv 160 Family
Ethernet Switch hardware reset
DRAM:  64 MB
Flash: 16 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   voxEmac
Type "h" for HELP. Have fun!
factory reset countdown: 15

I am still hunting for the sources of the uboot for the vx160 chipset, or a router which has a decent uboot which can boot any image.

U-boot itself is GPL, there should be a way to request the sources at Ikanos.

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